Connecticut
Twins are 2023’s last and 2024’s first Connecticut births
Yale New Haven Hospital closed out 2023 and rang in 2024 with the birth of a brother and sister –– twins, who have different birthdays and birth years.
Born at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023, baby boy Seven Morris was the last recorded birth of 2023 at YNHH, according to a hospital spokesperson.
Three minutes later, Seven’s sister, YNHH’s first baby of the New Year, Souli Morris, entered the world at 12:02 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 1, 2024.
Both babies weigh six pounds, nine ounces.
On Monday afternoon, a YNHH spokesperson said the parents, Mykel and Aliyah Kiyomi Morris of Hamden, and their twin bundles of joy are “doing great and getting some well-deserved rest.”
Baby on board at UConn Health
At UConn Health, the first baby of the year was born in the parking lot of UConn John Dempsey Hospital.
Juliana, a baby girl, could not wait to enter into 2024 –– according to UConn Today, her “Dad-to-be pulled up his car ‘right in front’ of the door to UConn John Dempsey Hospital’s Emergency Department … But, in the time it took Dad to run around the car and open the passenger door, Mom’s water broke and the baby was born” at 12:35 a.m.
Baby Juliana, UConn Health’s “newest Husky” weighs 8 pounds and measures 20 and a half inches long.
UConn Health said Juliana’s parents, who are from Prospect, are “still recovering from their very exciting start to 2024,” as her big sister looks forward to meeting the new baby.
A ‘New Year’s blessing’ at Hartford Hospital
Hartford Hospital’s first baby of 2024 was a baby boy born at 12:06 a.m.
“He’s our New Year’s blessing!” parents Murielle and Sterling Gatewood of Enfield said in a Hartford Hospital Facebook post.
Baby Gatewood weighs 7 pounds, 9 ounces and measures 20 inches long.
LYME — A body was recovered from the Connecticut River on Saturday, according to officials from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
At about 1 p.m., a vessel on the river reported seeing a body in the area of the Chester-Lyme Ferry, DEEP said.
The Environmental Conservation Police, along with the Connecticut State Police Major Crimes Unit and Lyme and Cheshire fire departments, responded to the area and recovered the body, DEEP said. The body has been sent to the state chief medical examiner, DEEP said.
Bill Flood, a media relations manager for DEEP, said the body was identified as a male and appeared to have been in the water for an extended period of time.
The medical examiner will determine the manner of death and EnCon is investigating, Flood said, noting there is no believed threat to the public.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Even as a born-and-raised New Yorker, I have a relatively open mind when it comes to pizza. When I’m out on the road, I’ll eat at any pizzeria as long as I can see the oven from the counter and buy pizza by the slice. However, the idea of any place outside the Big Apple proclaiming itself “the Pizza Capital of the United States” is just sacrilege. Connecticut doubled down on its ludicrous claim last weekend by approving the rollout of a special “Pizza State” license plate. This is the worst affront to the craft since Chicagoans started shilling their crust-bowl casserole as pizza.
Connecticut Foodshare
Let’s actually take a look at this license plate. One peek, we all know the rules. “The Pizza State” plate features a similar blue-to-white gradient as on the standard Connecticut license plate. The aforementioned self-proclaimed moniker replaces the state’s official nickname, “The Constitution State,” beneath the plate number. To the right of the number is an image of a pizza slice ripped straight from Microsoft’s ClipArt library. It’s a flat image that looks nothing like what’s served in New Haven. Connecticut drivers will be able to pick up a “Pizza State” plate for $65.
This is a pizza war for good
The only undisputedly good aspect of the “Pizza State” license plate is that its introduction will help feed Connecticut’s hungry. According to CT Insider, the $28.6 billion budget bill approved by the Connecticut General Assembly last weekend, which authorized the plate, also directly appropriated funding to Connecticut Foodshare. The sitewide food bank will also receive $50 from each $65 license plate fee, as it continues to provide millions of free meals to food-insecure people.
Back to the pizza debate at the heart of the matter. Governor Ned Lamont declared Connecticut the country’s pizza capital back in 2024 as part of a marketing campaign to promote the state. That declaration could have grounds for war in a different century, but individual states apparently don’t fight wars against each other anymore. Connecticut had better go back to being a UConn Husky-obsessed suburb before New York makes Greenwich the next Toledo.
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